When it comes to promoting flexible work, there’s nothing more powerful than a CEO declaring they work flexibly. To hear them speak up about the fact they have and enjoy a life beyond spending c…
Somebody can’t find a woman? Ask them to try again
Given we’re all some mother’s child, often somebody’s sister, wife, girlfriend or colleague, the challenge of ‘finding a woman’ shouldn’t actually be that challengi…
Women: Worth potentially more than $12 trillion by 2025, says McKinsey
In business, big numbers get attention. Especially when they indicate opportunity. Such numbers don’t get much bigger than the latest released by McKinsey Global Institute, which finds that if a…
Kids, study and a big technology business: Why Emma Lo Russo did it all at once
Emma Lo Russo stopped working when she had her third child. Despite being at the height of a leadership career, becoming a stay-at-home mother seemed like the right thing to do. She became president o…
Time for a six-hour work day? Sweden says yes
We see the demands of the average eight-hour work day everywhere: On our roads; in our after-school caring arrangements; and in childcare centres. We see the detrimental effect on employee wellbeing, …
How to be an ‘enthusiologist’ and change entire systems
To say Professor Julie Bernhardt is changing the world is an understatement. With a PHD in Neuroscience, the board member of the World Stroke Organisation and co-chair of the Australasian Stroke Trial…
How your employer COULD have it all, according to Anne-Marie Slaughter
Women may still not be able to have it all, but we can all help to make the workplace better for men and women. The first thing we need to accept is that women struggling to balance family and career …
How Lorraine Murphy helps influence 8 million people a month
Lorraine Murphy has created something remarkable: Australia’s first influencer talent agency, now with a reach of eight million people a month. Murphy’s business The Remarkables Group star…
600 extra women: How the Army did it
When Brigadier Gavan Reynolds AM joined the Australian Defence Force in the particularly ‘Orwellian’ time of 1984, he felt very comfortable. Everybody, he said, looked like him. They were …
The 90 companies listed as ‘employers of choice for gender equality’
Ninety companies across Australia are now considered to be employers of choice for both genders, according to a new list announced by the Workplace Gender Equality Agency today. This is the annual lis…
